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I disagree, but I can see where you're coming from based on the examples I picked (which were all biased toward operating system maintenance actions, given the

by danhon 16y ago

I disagree, but I can see where you're coming from based on the examples I picked (which were all biased toward operating system maintenance actions, given the source material). From the point of view of a naive user, there are new types of interactions that can have massive social implications: e.g. changing Facebook relationship status. At the moment, the notification of that status change to the user is pretty minimal. It does not, for example, make clear that that change will be propagated to, say, over 500 people, and all of their contacts. There may be people who are more concerned about their social standing than whether they've accidentally formatted a volume or not.

rythie 16y ago
Well really the problem with Facebook is that's too complex. Though I'd agree there are non-sys admin problems that people have, but the worst problems are all sys. admin type ones, viruses, out of space, slowness. The user-space stuff is nice to have, though the movies tend to have some impressive visualization and lots of data (like floorplans, schematics etc.) in order to show things like that. Facebook could maybe show a picture of your 500 friends and say "sending..." though.
- danhon 16y ago
  Exactly.
- OSTwister 16y ago
  You almost make it sound like it would only show you it's going out to 500 friends _after_ you clicked the button. :D
  - rythie 16y ago
    Well a decent undo would fix that
    - OSTwister 16y ago
      Undo is good, but I can't help but chuckle at the thought of "Whoops! He's not really my boyfriend" going out to 500 acquaintances 20 seconds after the opposite statement.